Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] with [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His early connections had been with Henry de Lacy . |
| 32 | But at least he had been with Grimma . |
| 33 | Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start . |
| 34 | It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive . |
| 35 | Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light . |
| 36 | She knew Una had been with Con Gallagher , not with friends as her father and half-brothers thought . |
| 37 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 38 | ‘ I mean , if this six weeks had been with U2 or Faith No More , we 'd obviously be doing better than we are . |
| 39 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 40 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 41 | She could never understand what he did with it , where it went — he had not had time for … that other life of his , he had been with Bert , with Jack ! |
| 42 | The ex-250 world champion ( 1969 with Benelli ) had been with Yamaha for over 20 years but after the collapse of Giacomo Agostini 's 500 team , Carruthers found himself out of the heat of competition . |
| 43 | Besides , Jessie had been with Marion for years , following her from production to production , doing sewing and little chores in between times when Marion was ‘ resting ’ . |
| 44 | Edward Carrington much preferred his new companion , taken though he had been with Suzanne 's tired , tired eyes . |
| 45 | He who had been with Christ when the voice came to him saying , ‘ This is my Son , whom I love ’ , denied him three times a few months later . |
| 46 | He had been with Reuters for 21 years in 10 different posts and was looking for ‘ something different to do ’ . |
| 47 | Previously he had been with Intel Corp and Burroughs . |
| 48 | My baptism of fire had been with Leon Brittan who was Chief Secretary until the 1983 general election . |
| 49 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |
| 50 | Jack Handy had been with McKinsey in the 1930s before setting up his own management consultancy and ‘ executive recruitment ’ business as early as 1944 . |
| 51 | In June 1939 , Mr. Sinclair was appointed Chief Engineer ( Trams & Trolleybuses ) on the retirement of Mr. Mason and J. H. Parker became Chief Electrical Engineer ; he had been with Croydon Corporation in 1915 . |
| 52 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |